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, "royal" because famously loyal since the days of Queen Anne, dreams at the fireside of her memories. They go back to the day when a three-masted vessel with double-decked stern-house and square mainsail entered the harbour flying the emblem of France. Sieur de Monts was the commander, the date of his landing, June, 1604. The visions embrace a village on the Granville shore—the first village of white men in New France—and an island fortress close by. In fancy, primitive battles are enacted again about the quadrangle of Port Royal—royal in the eyes of the French for the beauty of its environment—battles in which the flags of England and France were alternately victorious throughout a hundred years. A fort near the site occupied now by Annapolis was set up in the year 1643. In 1680 there was a small settlement adjoining. Poutrincourt and his friends had chosen not to build there because "too far within the harbour."

In the fall of 1710 we see in retrospect Nicholson